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Aero Financial, a private equity and consulting company, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 65% ownership interest in Sycamore Ventures, Inc., (Pink Sheets: SYVN) a holding company incubator that focuses on the acquisition and development of Health, Nutrition and Education companies.
“This strategic acquisition represents Aero’s initiative to augment its capabilities as a strategic advisor and to enhance its overall portfolio. Our mission is to build out our equity ownership in a large and diversified group of companies and further augment the development of those companies through implementing our services,” said James Price, CEO of Aero. “This investment is an initial step that will not only enable us to build overall value for Aero, but it will allow us to provide flexible financing and growth strategies to Sycamore’s current and prospective partner companies, build value in their business, and ultimately realize that value through a well-timed exit.”
“Sycamore will continue to target companies with proven business models and strong leadership and will continue to be managed day-to-day by President, Don Tolman and his team.”
About Aero Financial
Aero Financial was founded in 1992 as a Strategic Consulting and Private Equity firm, concentrating on providing essential support and organizational services to private and public companies. Aero has advanced into a Diversified Holding Company with equity ownership in a wide array of companies participating in several market segments and sectors. Aero’s unique, client-centric private equity and service model marks a return of the personalized-service that defined the industry in past decades. Aero is headquartered in San Diego, California. For additional information, please visit www.aero-financial.com.
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Morgenthaler Private Equity, the Boston and Cleveland-based private equity team focused on lower middle-market buyouts, announced today that it has completed the sale of Phillips & Temro Industries, a leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of highly engineered diesel engine components to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers of construction equipment, light and heavy duty trucks, agriculture equipment, stationary power generators and automobiles.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Butch Sumpter, President and Chief Executive Officer of Phillips & Temro, said, “We are excited about our future growth prospects across all three operating divisions.  Over the past several years we have significantly enhanced our global reach, introduced new product offerings and expanded our customer relationships.  We thank Morgenthaler for their advice, support and stewardship over the course of our successful partnership.”

Morgenthaler Private Equity originally acquired Phillips & Temro in December 2004.  Joe Machado, Director of Phillips and Temro and Partner at Morgenthaler added, “It has been a privilege for John Lutsi and me to work with Butch Sumpter, Mike Ramsay and the entire senior management team. We are proud to have been a small part of Philips & Temro’s esteemed 90-year operating history. In partnership with management, we have successfully completed an add-on acquisition in the United Kingdom, established a new factory start-up in China, improved operating efficiencies and invested in exciting technologies for electric and hybrid electric vehicle platforms. Going forward, Phillips & Temro will continue to build upon its leadership position by focusing on highly engineered products that meet the exacting performance standards of its global customer base.”

Baker Hostetler served as legal advisor and Goldman Sachs served as financial advisor to Morgenthaler Private Equity.

About Phillips & Temro
Headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN, Phillips and Temro Industries (“PTI”) is a leading global supplier of highly engineered diesel and gasoline engine components with an emerging presence in electric and hybrid electric vehicle platforms.  PTI serves leading OEM and aftermarket customers in construction equipment, light and heavy duty truck, agriculture, power generation, and automotive end markets.  PTI employs over 500 people across six global manufacturing operations.

About Morgenthaler Private Equity
Morgenthaler is a leading, national private equity and venture capital firm, with approximately $3 billion under management and investments in more than 300 companies over its 44-year history. Morgenthaler Private Equity (“MPE”) is the firm’s private equity team based in Cleveland, Ohio and Boston, Massachusetts. MPE focuses on the lower middle market with transaction values between $25 – $150 million and EBITDA in excess of $5 million. MPE has two primary target investment areas: highly engineered manufacturing and business services. For more information on Morgenthaler’s private equity group, please visit: http://www.morgenthaler.com/private-equity/.

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New York, NY, Jan. 27, 2012—Continuing to expand despite a difficult economy, LEE & LOW BOOKS, an independent publisher of high quality books for children and young adults with a focus on diversity, announced today that it has acquired the assets of San Francisco-based Children’s Book Press, the first specialty publisher of multicultural children’s books in the United States. With this addition LEE & LOW BOOKS becomes one of the largest independent multicultural children’s publishers in the country, with over 650-titles in print.
Terms of the cash transaction include the acquisition of tangible assets such as books in inventory and intangible assets such as copyrights and trademarks, including the Children’s Book Press name. Lee & Low will assume Children’s Book Press contracts with authors, illustrators, customers and suppliers. The sale price was not disclosed.
“This acquisition is a tremendous honor for us– to keep the prestigious collection of Children’s Book Press alive and to have the opportunity to build on its 36-year history,” said Jason Low, publisher of LEE & LOW BOOKS.

Lee & Low Books also announced that two of its titles were recipients Monday, Jan. 23, of top American Library Association-sponsored children’s book publishing awards. Under the Mesquite, by Guadalupe Garcia McCall won the 2012 Pura Belpre Award Author Medal. Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/Marisol McDonald no combinia, by author Monica Brown and illustrator Sara Palacios won the 2012 Pura Belpre Award Illustrator Honor. Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match is one of the titles acquired from Children’s Book Press.

“Marisol McDonald is the last book published by CBP, so it is a nice if not bittersweet ending for this small press,” Low said.

Children’s Book Press (CBP), founded in 1975, and LEE & LOW BOOKS share similar missions of promoting diversity through the publication of books for young readers. The first nonprofit independent publisher to focus solely on multicultural and bilingual literature for children in the United States, CBP works feature characters from African American, Asian/Pacific American, Native American, Latino, and multiracial communities. Its authors, illustrators and books have won major awards, including the Ezra Jack Keats New Writers Award, Pura Belpré Award, Jane Addams Award, Américas Award, Tomás Rivera Award, and others. Among its better-known titles are Family Pictures, See the Rhythm , My Diary from Here to There, Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match, Storyteller’s Candle, Let Me Help, Quinito’s Neighborhood, Upside Down Boy, I Know the River Loves Me, Cilantro Girl, It doesn’t Have to Be This Way, and Angel’s Kite. Children’s Book Press will maintain its own identity as a separate imprint of LEE & LOW BOOKS.

“Creating continuity for the mission of Children’s Book Press is important to us, since its commitment to diversity was so groundbreaking,” noted Low. “Children’s Book Press started the trend of featuring people of color in the pages of books—before this, the reading experience was for the most part exclusively white.”

The purchase of CBP is another step in Lee & Low’s growth. Founded in 1991 to provide illustrated children’s books for the diversity market, the Manhattan-based company has steadily expanded its grade and age ranges and its content. In 2000, it launched its now firmly established education arm, Bebop Books, which started with books for grades k-2 and by 2005 reached grades k-5. Last year it entered the young adult (middle school and high school) market through the launch of Tu Books, an imprint for science fiction, fantasy, and mystery novels.

“Our Children’s Book Press acquisition and the warm reception that Tu is meeting say without question that the demand is growing for diverse books,” Low said. “It is our prediction that as America becomes more and more culturally diverse, the need for diverse books will grow along with the changing population. At the same time, it will become increasingly apparent that books with multicultural characters deal with common and compelling themes that make them good reads for audiences of all cultures.”

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Slacker, Inc. today announced that Steve Wadsworth, a former senior executive at The Walt Disney Company and a leader in the Internet and interactive digital media industry, has joined Slacker as an independent member of Slacker’s Board of Directors. Mr. Wadsworth spent 17 years at The Walt Disney Company where he was a pioneer for the company’s digital media and technology business.
Mr. Wadsworth’s career with Disney includes more than 11 years as Disney’s chief executive overseeing Internet and digital media. In his most recent role, Mr. Wadsworth served as president of Disney Interactive Media Group, where he led the global creation and delivery of entertainment and lifestyle content across digital and interactive media platforms.
“Expanding Slacker to provide an unrivaled range of music, entertainment and news is a top priority for 2012,” said Jim Cady, president and CEO at Slacker. “We are eager to have Steve lend us his expertise on the Board as we further develop the Slacker listening experience.”
“Interaction is a key component to the Slacker listening experience,” said Steve Wadsworth. “Slacker is taking a unique approach to radio by combining excellent content discovery with personalization on a growing collection of available platforms. The opportunity to join Slacker’s Board of Directors is an honor.”
The Slacker Radio experience includes over 150 expert-programmed and interactive music stations, along with customizable stations featuring ESPN Radio, ABC News, comedy, custom artist-hosted showcase stations and leading music festival stations. In addition, Slacker listeners can create their own personalized radio stations featuring their favorite music, news and sports. Slacker Premium Radio also includes on-demand access to the entire Slacker music library featuring millions of songs, reinforcing that Slacker Radio has the most varied and compelling range of customizable content offered by any radio service, while maintaining the most personal listening experience.
About Slacker, Inc.
Slacker offers the world’s most complete range of radio services. Whether it’s the award-winning free Slacker Basic Radio, or the fully-loaded subscription services Slacker Radio Plus and Slacker Premium Radio, listeners enjoy a unique, custom listening experience. Slacker enables music lovers to play highly personalized music online at the Slacker web site, in Ford vehicles with SYNC AppLink, on connected home devices or on-the-go with Slacker Personal Radio applications. Slacker mobile applications are available for Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile, Palm webOS, Nokia, Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry smartphones. For more information visit: http://www.Slacker.com/about.

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Noble Biomaterials, Inc., a global leader in bacterial management solutions, recently announced it raised $8 million in Series B equity financing. The round was led by Northwater Capital’s Intellectual Property Fund with participation by existing investors TL Ventures and DuPont Capital Management. Proceeds from the financing will help drive the company’s growth initiatives and build its intellectual property management expertise.
In 2011 Noble Biomaterials enjoyed 45 percent revenue growth and record profitability. According to Noble CEO Jeff Keane, “this new financing will help further accelerate our growth rate and enable us to aggressively develop our intellectual property portfolio, a key differentiator in our industry.”
“We believe Intellectual property is the fundamental asset of innovation and entrepreneurship in the 21st century,” said Frances Kordyback, principal at Northwater Intellectual Property Fund, based in Toronto. “As such, we fully support Noble Biomaterials’ desire to enhance its growing portfolio of intellectual property, and see great potential in its proprietary technology and competitive business model.”
Robert Keith, managing director at TL Ventures in Wayne, PA, stated that “the new financing will further strengthen Noble’s leadership position in developing technology to reduce infections, help hard-to-heal wounds and eliminate odors for soft textile applications.”
About Noble Biomaterials
Headquartered in Scranton, PA, Noble Biomaterials develops, manufactures and markets advanced antimicrobial technologies designed to provide bacterial management, wound management and odor elimination solutions. Through the X-STATIC® system, Noble delivers premier odor elimination solutions to leading sports apparel companies and world class bacterial management systems to global healthcare brands. The Company has more than 200 global licensees for products in the medical, defense, industrial and consumer markets and has offices in Europe, Asia and South America.
Noble is a strategic partner of APIC, the leading professional association for infection preventionists and works closely with the infection prevention community toward the common goal of reducing healthcare associated infections. The company’s X-STATIC® antimicrobial technology provides a simple and cost-effective method for hospitals to deliver a proven bacterial management solution for soft surface textile materials. These surfaces include patient gowns, privacy curtains and bed linens and comprise 90 percent of the healthcare patient environment. For more information please visit http://www.noblebiomaterials.com.
About Northwater Intellectual Property Fund
Northwater Intellectual Property Fund is managed by Northwater Capital Management Inc., a leading, privately held, investment management company. With offices in Toronto and Chicago, Northwater focuses on investments in intellectual property and intellectual property-rich companies. Northwater provides financing, counsel and connectivity to its portfolio of intellectual property investments to speed their projects to market and to defend their protected space. For more information please visit http://www.northwatercapital.com.
About TL Ventures
TL Ventures is a leading national venture capital firm with offices in Pennsylvania and California. With over $1.5 billion under management, the company has invested in over 200 companies since it was founded in 1988. Its network of approximately 35 active portfolio companies, investment resources, professional contacts and service providers makes it one of the most active firms in the market. For more information please visithttp://www.tlventures.com.
About DuPont Capital Management
DuPont Capital Management, based in Wilmington, DE, offers prudent, proven investment management services and global perspective to institutional investors. The company’s mission is to provide professional investment management services to clients using systematic, value-based strategies designed to achieve superior investment performance consistent with the clients’ objectives. For more information please visithttp://www.dupontcapitalmanagement.com.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2012 — Founder Collective, one of the most reputed early-stage venture capital funds, with previous successful bets on the likes of Makerbot, Milo and Uber, now turns its attention to online art market Paddle8. The investment is led by David Frankel who joins the board of Paddle8. Joining Paddle8′s financing round is Mousse Partners, the private investment firm affiliated with a leading luxury goods company. The firm’s U.S. venture efforts are led by Ed Zysik with recent investments represented by Warby Parker. This combination of technology and luxury prowess supports Paddle8′s position as the leading destination for both new and seasoned collectors to access fine art works via a curated selection, insider opinions and a patented transaction platform that allows collectors and galleries to ship, insure and install works effortlessly.

Since its inception in May 2011, Paddle8 has formed partnerships with the world’s leading museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), over 200 galleries, including Gagosian and David Zwirner, and art fairs such as NADA, in addition to prominent brands affiliated with high net worth communities, including NetJets, Edmiston and Krug. Paddle8′s traffic has increased to up to 100,000 views per day, and over 2,000 carefully filtered high-net-worth individuals from over 150 countries now join its private community every month.
With this support, Paddle8 will bolster its technological tools and experience: For collectors, Paddle8 will launch a new user interface focused on collector-to-collector engagement, dynamic editorial and customized navigation features, allowing collectors to browse an extended offering of works from different eras and mediums. For galleries, museums and art fairs, Paddle8 will roll out new tools and services, including a new point of sale transaction platform, private rooms and a set of mobile applications.
Paddle8′s management team is led by co-founders Alexander Gilkes (LVMH and Phillips de Pury) and Aditya Julka (serial entrepreneur and HBS Baker Scholar), Managing Director Osman Khan (Perella Weinberg and HBS) and Managing Editor Andrea Hill. Says, Julka, “Paddle8 has a great deal to gain from these new partners as we evolve our business to focus more on the tools offered to galleries and luxury experience provided to collectors.”
Paddle8 is represented by Robert Scott of Hand Baldachin & Amburgey LLP.

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LEESBURG, VA–(Feb 9, 2012) – In stealth mode since June 2011, timeRAZOR today announces $3.4 million in funding. While finishing development for its revolutionary product, the company has lined up key partnerships with powerhouse brands, local retail properties, sports teams, and trendsetting companies who identify both with the problem timeRAZOR has set out to solve — and its unique approach on how it’ll solve it.
The problem? People are surrounded by hundreds of events and more exclusive offers than they can possibly discover so they end up missing out because it’s nearly impossible to keep up with it all. timeRAZOR, coming soon, will help make sure people never miss out, bringing a sense of serendipity back to a highly scheduled world.
“Our goal at timeRAZOR is to keep people connected with what’s going on around them so they don’t miss out on the things they want to do while they juggle the things they need to do,” says Jeff White, co-founder and CEO of timeRAZOR. “But it isn’t just about what’s happening on your block or in your corner of the city. It’s about how our predictive technology can create convenient discovery for you around where you plan to be.”
Companies working with timeRAZOR include: L’Oreal’s Active Cosmetics Division, Renaissance Hotels, Vail Valley Foundation, several local retail properties (The Shops at Dos Lagos, The Village at Leesburg, and West 7th), World Adult Kickball Association, JetSet Studios, and Boston-area HWS’ four minor league baseball teams.
In addition to this dynamic roster of partners, timeRAZOR has assembled a board of advisors that includes Linda Abraham, co-founder of comScore; Eddie Amos, former Microsoft executive; and Gene Riechers, former General Partner of Valhalla Partners.
“timeRAZOR is an exciting product that fulfills a real need that everyone has,” said Linda Abraham, co-founder of comScore. “When I learned about timeRAZOR, I really wanted to be involved. As an advisor, I am looking forward to working with their seasoned team.”
timeRAZOR will launch in the coming weeks, free to consumers on iOS and Android. “We’re thrilled that household brands and established technical leaders see the value in our technology and vision at such an early stage,” continued White. “timeRAZOR will help weave partners’ events and content directly into users’ days, providing actionable analytics to help brands find the right people at the right time.”

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Avadyne Health, a leading provider of patient-centric outsourced revenue cycle management services and Benchmark Revenue Management, the nation’s premier revenue cycle workflow provider for hospitals, announced recently they have merged. The new firm’s combined solutions, which presently serve nearly 200 hospitals across the U.S., will set a new standard for technology-enabled services in the revenue cycle space. The merged company will be providing new and uniquely valuable technology enabled services as well as continuing to offer the solutions for which each company has become known. The new company will continue to the use the Avadyne Health name.
“We couldn’t be more excited about merging with Benchmark,” said Moises Eilemberg, CEO of Avadyne. “We have been working together and have been an investor in the company for some time. Our focus at Avadyne has been the extension of a world-class patient experience beyond the clinical encounter and into the revenue cycle. In fact, our executives speak all over the country about the Total Patient Experience. And while our customers love the way we assist their patients, we were actively searching for ways to work more seamlessly with our hospitals. With Benchmark on board, we are able to offer our customers the same technology that we use ourselves, so the flow of work and the transparency to the results we deliver is unparalleled in the industry. We’re setting a new standard,” Eilemberg added.
“Since our team gets so deeply involved with our customers, we find it very distressing to see our clients battle with continuous cost pressures and understaffing; their options for partnering with a specialized service provider are limited by scarce internal IT resources, rigid contracts, and low visibility to the work being done for them,” explained Tyson McDowell, CEO of Benchmark. “Merging with Avadyne creates enormous flexibility for our current and future customers. Whether their needs include internal revenue cycle technology, outsourcing, or both, our combined capabilities mean that we can provide a revenue ‘safety net’ for everything they do. Our staff can work seamlessly with their staff members so the collective team is always ‘right-sized.’ That offers true optimization that no one else can provide. We have an enormous opportunity to increase transparency and efficiency, reduce costs and change the face of revenue cycle,” McDowell continued.
Investment Bank Nexus Health Capital advised Avadyne and Benchmark on the merger. Damon Morey, LLP served as legal counsel to Avadyne and Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP handled legal matters for Benchmark.
About Avadyne Health
Avadyne Health headquartered in Moline, IL, is a patient-centric organization that provides revenue cycle management services to a wide range of healthcare providers across the nation. Avadyne Health ensures its clients deliver a positive patient experience beyond the clinical encounter and through the revenue cycle. Its services include self-pay billing and customer service, third-party claims resolution, denial management and collection of post write-off accounts. Avadyne also offers revolutionary account segmentation and presumptive charity analytics. At Avadyne Health, our mission is to strengthen the financial health of our healthcare providers so you can focus on what you do best – care for patients. For more information, visit http://www.avadynehealth.com.
About Benchmark Revenue Management
Benchmark Revenue Management is one of the fastest-growing firms in the healthcare administration technology field. Benchmark delivers revolutionary administrative workflow, revenue analysis, management, and monitoring tools which are inherently integrated for maximum effectiveness and efficiency. Benchmark’s customers include a number of high-profile hospitals and systems, such as St. Joseph’s in New Jersey, St. Joseph’s Atlanta, New York Methodist Hospital, Catholic Healthcare Partners, Advocate Health Care in Illinois, and Avera in South Dakota. More information about Benchmark, visit http://www.benchmarkrevenue.com.

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The Buller Group, an international recruiting and consulting firm supporting the U.S. Government market, today announced it has acquired Mabec Solutions, an information technology professional services firm serving the Federal Government and commercial companies. The Buller Group has acquired all outstanding shares, which includes all existing contracts.
“The Mabec Solutions acquisition represents a significant step for The Buller Group and a major milestone in our expansion strategy,” said Rob Buller, CEO and Founder of The Buller Group. “We are committed to providing our clients with the full suite of human capital services. With Mabec, we now offer cleared, temporary staffing solutions that allow our clients to handle hundreds of fills while placing the risk of recruiting more onto our shoulders.”
In addition to its core recruiting services, The Buller Group now offers strategic staffing. Buller Staffing’s services will include: Subcontractor Replacement, Subcontracting and Teaming, Temp-to-Perm Staffing, and Temporary Staffing.
About The Buller Group, LLC:
For over a decade The Buller Group, LLC has been a leader in providing cleared recruiting solutions to our clients. Whatever the recruiting challenges The Buller Group has experience in delivering impactful results. Our body of work ranges from: CONUS to OCONUS, uncleared to full-scope polygraph, large volume searches to senior executive searches and niche positions.

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JLL Partners, Inc. (“JLL”) and American Dental Partners, Inc. (“ADPI” or the “Company”) announced today that JLL, through its affiliated entities, completed its acquisition of the Company.
“I am very pleased to have a partner in JLL that is committed to our core values, strategic goals and objectives, dedication to quality care and long-term outlook,” said Gregory A. Serrao, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
“American Dental Partners is well-positioned as a leading provider of dental practice management services with a national infrastructure and an excellent reputation for providing services to its affiliated practices,” said Michel Lagarde, Managing Director of JLL. “We look forward to working with ADPI’s management team to pursue our shared vision and enhance the Company’s growth.”
The Company is now privately held and will no longer be listed on NASDAQ after the closing of the market on February 9, 2012. As a result of the acquisition, the holders of ADPI’s outstanding common shares will receive $19.00 per share in cash. The total enterprise value for the Company, including outstanding indebtedness, as of the closing date is $392 million.
About American Dental Partners
American Dental Partners is headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts and is one of the nation’s leading business partners to dental group practices. The Company is affiliated with 27 dental group practices, which have 282 dental facilities with approximately 2,404 operatories located in 21 states. More information on American Dental Partners can be found on the website www.amdpi.com .
About JLL Partners
JLL Partners is a New York-based leading private equity investment firm with approximately $4 billion of capital under management. JLL’s investment philosophy is to partner with outstanding management teams and invest with them in companies that they can continue to grow into market leaders. JLL has invested in a variety of industries, with special focus on healthcare services, financial services and business services. More information on JLL can be found on the website www.jllpartners.com .
Forward-Looking Statements. This press release contains forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements reflect the Company’s current expectations or beliefs concerning future events and actual results may differ materially from current expectations. Any such forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as predictions of future results. The Company does not undertake to publicly update or revise its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.